Word Meanings - PILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a pile or point; pointed. "Magus threw a spear well piled." Chapman.

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• PILPUL
  Among the Jews, penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, esp. in Talmudic study. -- Pil"pul*ist , n. --Pil`pul*is"tic , a.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• PILLER
  One who pills or plunders.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• PILLARED
  Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.
• PILOTAGE
  1. The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. The compensation made or allowed to a pilot. 3. Guidance, as by a pilot. Sir W. Scott.
• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• PILOSE
  Clothed thickly with pile or soft down. (more info) 1. Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering. Owen.
• PILEIFORM
  Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.
• PILED
  Having a pile or point; pointed. "Magus threw a spear well piled." Chapman.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• PILGRIMIZE
  To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. B. Jonson.
• SPEARMAN
  One who is armed with a spear. Acts xxiii. 23.
• PILOSITY
  The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness. Bacon.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• EXPILATOR
  One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. Sir T. Browne.
• PAPILLARY
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.
• LAPILLATION
  The state of being, or the act of making, stony.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EPILOGUIZE
  See EPILOGIZE
• PAPILLIFORM
  Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• OPPILATIVE
  Obstructive. Sherwood.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• PAPILIONIDES
  The typical butterflies.